Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!wuarchive!rex!uflorida!ufqtp!bernhold From: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: The Standard for Fortran 77 (Re: intrinsic) Message-ID: <1218@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> Date: 21 Dec 90 20:09:56 GMT References: <1990Dec20.112143.21877@qut.edu.au> <1214@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> Reply-To: bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) Organization: University of Florida Quantum Theory Project Lines: 27 In article <1214@orange19.qtp.ufl.edu> I wrrote: >In article maine@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Richard Maine) writes: >>Amen! In the case of one of our vendors, who I'll refrain from naming, >>I tried unsucessfully to get them to throw out 90+% of their manual >>and instead sell copies of the standard, letting their manual document >>only deviations, extensions, and implementation specifics. > >FPS (Floating Point Systems) used to do exactly this with their >FPS-x64 product line. I got an interesting response from someone at FPS about this. It seems that FPS had to stop producing the manual because someone said it was too much like the standard (it _was_ the standard, in a binder with an additional section of FPS's extensions) and wanted FPS to pay royalties. [No flames about the legalities, please -- I'm just relating the story!] Seems like the Fortran user community would be better served if vendors wouldn't have to worry about such things -- maybe we would have more people familiar with the standard then! -- David Bernholdt bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu Quantum Theory Project bernhold@ufpine.bitnet University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611 904/392 6365